southsideirish71

That should be an out at 2nd. Now its 2nd and 3rd and no outs.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Sep 7, 2006 -> 08:27 PM) After last year, I never thought I was going to have the feeling of the Sox being down by 4 early and really not having a shot. Once again, these guys just look dead. Tony they are home. Its warm out. The ball flys out in the summer, and the softball team knows this. So every single one of them are trying to hit every single ball on the Dan Ryan. Team ball is over. Its all about stat padding, and Earl Weaver baseball.

Ozzie is pulling him now. Come on. You had to wait until he gave up that 4th run, so he could fit in your little spreadsheet formula of x pitcher must go x innings.

QUOTE(Frankensteiner @ Sep 7, 2006 -> 08:23 PM) Why has no one on the team sat Konerko down and asked him why he feels obligated to pull every pitch? Maybe because all of our hitters pretty much do it, and I am sure that the coach that would have this sit down talk preaches it. Lift and Pull. Thank God ozzie keeps Mark in. His back deserved an MRI, but he still starts tonight. What a smart smart man this Ozzie Guillen is.

A real team hitter, would of stayed back on that low and away fastball and hit it hard into right center. It would of rolled to the wall and we would of scored. But Paulie wants to be on Sportscenter, and he figured he could hit it hard.

And Paulie kills the inning pulling a low and away fastball. Paulie you are not Vlad you cannot pull the low and away pitch for power.

DJ with a lie. Paulie will take what they give him. Thats why he constantly pulls crap on the outer half.

Good pitchers, Clff Lee was a good pitcher last year. He is a pile of dung this year. Stop making this guy seem like he is a good pitcher Hawk.

That was a huge ass swing with 2 strikes. Here comes Dong or Famine.

Our first baserunner Thank god for a walk. Dye needs to score here. Or the runner will be stranded.

This is a guy we usually rock. But our guys are into lift and pull mode.

Gets bailed out there. That was almost 5-0

Away, away away....Now against our boys Buerhle would have a no hitter against us. But the rest of the non Greg Walker lead league actually adjusts to away away away.

Buerhle comes home for a bad back, and gets an MRI. And then we allow him to start. So it was bad enough to warrant an MRI. Crapball tonight. The worst possible fielder on the field at third, outside of letting pods play 3rd and they are exploiting him.

Well its summer, we are at home, and another Greg Walker lead offense is back into its pull and lift summer slumber where we score 9 runs one game, then we struggle to get some hits the next.

QUOTE(Frankensteiner @ Sep 7, 2006 -> 07:52 PM) This game is going as expected. Buehrle's getting rocked and the offense will likely have trouble scoring. All that stuff about us turning a corner yesterday was nonsense. We are back at home. Which means our impatient homer or nothing hitters are back at the launching pad. This place doesnt preach hitting, it preaches swing for the fences.

Timo who was slow and a terrible rotten hitter was able to leadoff for us last year.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 7, 2006 -> 07:48 PM) Good call...this is an inexcusable lineup tonight. Ozzie has to have his dimunitive speed guy up at the top, ala Marlins 2003. Sweeney was the first time we took a chance on someone else at the leadoff spot besides our LF duo.

That was the best throw from a left fielder all year long. 3 f***ing runs already.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Sep 7, 2006 -> 11:49 AM) God I hate her, but I'd love to foul her...I guess I can get in line You can have her.

QUOTE(Dan @ Sep 7, 2006 -> 11:31 AM) i absolutley agree. half this forum is nothing but fair-whether fans, and thats including many of the guys with a lot of posts too. last year, you guys sing our teams praises, we dance in the streets, world series yada yada yada. this year, Podsednik sucks we need to replace him. hell i saw threads sugesting the likes of Dave f***ing Roberts. come on people. we've seen what scotty (and the rest of the team for that matter) can do but he hits a rut and you loose all faith? no trades need to be made, until scott comes out of the slump we play Ozuna in LF and try to pick up our offense 1-9. PS the true reason for scott's slump, Lisa Dergan is too much as for him to handle. shoota's got me on this one. Lets take a gander at Scotty Pods year so far and lets see when he can come out of his slump. In April Mr. Dergan hit .233 with a .281 OBP. In May he hit .318 with a .443 OBP. In June he hit .245 with a .318OBP In July he hit .287 with a .330 OBP In August he hit .217 with a .284 OBP In September he so far has hit .214 with a .214OBP So we have April, June, August and September as been horrible horrible rotten months as a leadoff hitter. And you have one good month in May, and then an average month in July with miserable OBP for a leadoff hitter. This isnt a rut, this is a year based rotten performance, spiked by one good month. I thank Scott Pods for hitting the game winning homer in Game 2. I was one of the 40k people in the cold, rain with a rain pouncho over my winter coat happy and I couldnt believe it. However last year is over, and we are not in 2005. This year his performance isnt acceptable, and he doesnt have a major league track record for success at this level. People need to realize that players come and go. Its not like Scotty Pods came up through the organization, was here for 10 years, etc etc. As an organization, we try to get the best out of a player, but when that player starts to fail, they hit the eject seat pretty quick. Fans need to remember they can do the same thing. Look how sentimental Kenny was in the offseason.

QUOTE(SoxHawk1980 @ Sep 6, 2006 -> 10:13 PM) My mistake, I meant to say that his hitting wasn't that great in a band box stadium in AAA. An .802 OPS in that stadium is unimpressive. We have enough guys with high OPS's on our team. How about a few guys who can hit for average, get on base, and allow those high OPS guys to drive in runs.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Sep 6, 2006 -> 10:08 PM) Uhh????????? I am confused as well.

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Sep 6, 2006 -> 02:44 PM) huh, where did I say what you are accusing me of saying? I said that we already have what was avaible on the market, which is why KW didn't go out and do anything. JEEZE! Stay with us here. Brady Clark, was available, can play CF, can leadoff, and is right handed. He would of been a good platoon guy to play in CF and also play in LF. He can leadoff, has a good OBP and hits for a decent average.

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Sep 6, 2006 -> 02:39 PM) ha ha, green please, green. But, we have a good/great defensive CF who can't hit. We have a decent hitting player trying to play CF. I don't believe there was a player available that could do both. That was the problem. Giving prospects or players up to place yourself in the same exact situation just didn't make sense. He cant hit, or what you really mean is the first 2 months he couldnt hit right. Review the splits and then tell me he cant hit. Now that he is hitting decently, you still put the butcher in CF. Good move.